Meetings

Installing & Running VMWare on Linux

Steven Lembark

Abstract

Virtual Machines ("VM") have been around since mainframe
days. They run an operating system on a chip that isn't
there in order to do things that the chip that *is* there
cannot. The original example was running BSD on mainframes;
today it's Windows within Linux. This is more stable
than using emulators since Windows is somewhat more bug-comptable
with itself.

VMWare can also be used for development, configuration/regression
testing, live system installations, and bastion hosts.

The talk will include a tarball installation of VMWare,
configuring the VM for installations and Linux to support
it, and some examples of handling samba issues.

Speaker Bio

Steve Lembark is a Chicago-based Contract Architect, SysAdmin,
and Perl hacker. He started using VMWare in order to avoid
dual boots with Windows98 and has since found all sorts of
fun things to do with it. If anyone has questions about
VMWare or wants to see any specific items covered in the
talk he can be contacted via .

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